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Jane Litte is the founder of Dear Author, a lawyer, and a lover of pencil skirts. She self publishes NA and contemporaries (and publishes with Berkley and Montlake) and spends her downtime reading romances and writing about them. Her TBR pile is much larger than the one shown in the picture and not as pretty.
You can reach Jane by email at jane @ dearauthor dot com

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While not exactly out of print (just really expensive to buy), I just recently got my hands on a like-new copy of Phantom by Susan Kay. I’ve always wanted a copy for my keeper shelf but have not wanted to pay $30 for the privilege. I ended up getting it via Paperback Swap and was pretty excited. I’m simple like that.

Steve Belichick was Bill Belichick’s dad. He was a football scout for Navy for a long time. (Hmm. It’s kinda frightening how much I know about football these days… particularly Patriots-related football.)

I never could see why Phantom by Susan Kay was hard to find. I’m always seeing it in the UBS and bought a copy at work for $5.98 (then added my employee discount to that).

I do think I once saw a copy of La Nora’s Promise Me Tomorrow at work and didn’t think anything of it at the time. By the time I went back to look for it the next day, the book I thought was it was sold. For just half its cover price. Bet someone was mighty happy if it was what I thought.

I think that’s the one thing that sometimes bites about working at a used bookstore. It’s impossible to know ALL the hard to find books, so you know some slip through. And it’s utterly impossible to look everything up when you see hundreds or thousands of books a day.

I don’t know, Nicole. Maybe it’s just a matter of being in the right place? And keep in mind, I live in an area that has one, not-very-good, used bookstore that caters mostly to really old books, mysteries, and kind of off the wall fiction. Bleh.

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